Nicholas Fry Author

Nicholas Fry is the curator of the Barriger Library and is the archivist of the B&O Railroad Historical Society.

Gregory Smith is a retired educator and is currently president of the B&O Historical Society.

Elizabeth Davis-Young is the widow of J. J. Young Jr. This book realizes her desire to fulfill her husband's unfinished plans for a book of his Wheeling area railroad photographs.

John J. Young Jr's (1929–2004) hobby of railroad photography began in Wheeling, WV, and continued after he moved to upstate New York in 1959. He was a member of the faculty of Broome Community College in Binghamton and taught photography until his retirement in 1995. His photographs of railroads across the country were published in books and periodicals throughout hislife. He was working on this book before his death in 2004.